The battle between men and women is old - but in one Livingston County courtroom, men say the judge doesn't give them a fighting chance.
Even the children caught in their parents' crossfire question why Probate Judge Carol Hackett Garagiola appears to rule against fathers even where experts have found the father to be the better ...

There are a ton of women from neighboring counties coming here to get this Judge. I think this judge needs to either step down or start doing the right thing. there are fathers who are not seeing their kids and mothers who keep it fresh by making up new allegations on a monthly basis. Now im not saying all fathers have it right there are a few who need some serious help and the judge should make both parents take counceling and learn to work together for the kids. I see to many parents who play ignorant and stupid games (I.E property damage,harasing phone calls and emails )trying to see who has the biggest pee pee. I see fathers left flat broke and living day to day. Some cases the judge should just say to both parties STOP ! If you cant work it out the kids go to the state until you both grow up and learn to be parents. These fights that carry on for years are harmful to the kids. Parents have to remember every stupid game you play put you further away from your kids and giving them a somewhat normal life. Stop thinking of yourself and dummy up.

Hmm another dead topic no wonder why nothing is getting done. You people only get a fire in your pants just days before a court hearing. How PATHETIC no wonder why your being stomped all over in court. No focus except the day before, Piss poor attorneys, and mor worried about drinking beer and football and chasing tail than doing your own research and taking charge of your situation.

We are the VICTIMS here. You should not be calling us pathetic. We are powerless. This corrupt judge has ALL the power. She even controls the Livingston County Press. She got this news story and it’s associated blog removed from the LCP’s website.

What do we do? Who do we write to request an investigation of this courtroom? How do we draw attention to this?

Well I’m awaiting court transcripts from my husbands case and we are filing complaints with the U.S. Committee on the Judiciary as well as the Michigan Judicial Tenure. We’ve sent letters to various representatives and legislative committees. We’ve also contacted the ACLU.

Everybody hear needs to do the same and keep doing it until someone listens.

I was a witness for a co-worker in Judge Garagiola courtroom. This man had 4-5 people giving character witness to his good parenting. His wife had moved from wayne county where they were going to give joint custody..then his wife made up charges of abuse and moved to Livingston County..YES guess who ended up being her judge. Then judge Garagiola dismissed everyone in there and the good reference to the husband. The wife could not bring one person in the court that would give her a good parent recomendation. Further the cards were stacked against this good father the minute he walked into the court. My testimoney was rebuffed by judge Garagiola as she said I was probably like the husband and probably a abuser..OMG
Actually I have decieded to help this friend by getting things in motion to get some press involved. Obviousely the Judge does not know I how close ties I have with the largest news media available..This is obviousley the only way to get people looking at this judge and this court…Everyone needs to be active in getting your stories to the media, newspaper, internet, REMEMBER 10 PEOPLE WHO SPEAK MAKE MORE NOISE THAN 10,000 WHO REMAIN SILENT!!!! Oh and yes this good father supported this womans son and treated him so wonderful..she was not married to this boys father..oh yes my friend married her as she was pregnant..Our whole staff that this girl was a lunatic and we tried to talk him out of getting married..Get this her mother is married to a man who abused her and obviousley the judge know this set of grandparents have access to the kids.. Its a matter of time now to stop this madness !!

Wow, ok I am a mother who happens to be engaged to a man who is being SCREWED by garagiola. To make a long story short when they divorced they opted out of foc and agreed to everything on their own. When the woman decided not to live up to her end of the bargain of selling the house and giving the man the equity he was intitled, instead the house that she “had to keep” went into foreclosure because all of her live-ins refused to help her pay for anything. So he took her to court to get the money and try to save his credit, what did the judge do instead? Ordered him to pay child support… Yeah and when her boyfriends son went to jail for attempted murder and we filed an emergency motion to get his son out of the house she ruled in the mothers favor stating that the mother will be sure to make sure that they are not to be in the same house alone. REALLY? This is after the dominik calhoun murder. If you have to make sure that they not be left alone wouldn’t it be safer just to make sure he wasn’t in the same house?? Now after all of this we have appealed a decision made by the judge over a year ago because of fault of the judges transscriptionist and she still has not made a decision. We are filing a grievance but are almost afraid to because she has not made a decision about our case yet, and we don’t want to piss her off even more.

until it comes to child custody then a mother thinks she is intitiled to have her rent paid for the next 18 years no matter how big of a piece of s**t she is. the bottom line is the best intrest of the child is not always the mother. A good father should not have to prove a mother unfit just that he is fitter. does children have to die in the custody of mothers before a father can get custody and burry his children. My ex tested positive for drugs 9 times durring her pregnency it still didnt prove her unfit. BULL S**T KENTUCKY